H9005–/ל–l

Send for the archers to come together against Babylon, all the bowmen; put up your tents against her on every side; let no one get away: give her the reward of her work; as she has done, so do to her: for she has been uplifted in pride against the Lord,

יְהִי־לָהּ֙ (לָ) L “to <the>”לָ֣הּ (לָ֣) la “to <the>”לָ֑הּ (לָ֑) La “to <the>”

For this cause her young men will be falling in her streets, and all her men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord.

לָכֵ֛ן (לָ) la. “<to>”

And pride will go with uncertain steps and have a fall, and there will be no one to come to his help: and I will put a fire in his towns, burning up everything round about him.

ל֖וֹ (ל֖) l “[will belong] to <the>”

Their saviour is strong; the Lord of armies is his name: he will certainly take up their cause, so that he may give rest to the earth and trouble to the people of Babylon.

לְיֹשְׁבֵ֥י (לְ) le. “to”

A sword is on all the mixed people in her, and they will become like women: a sword is on her store-houses, and they will be taken by her attackers.

לְנָשִׁ֑ים (לְ) le. “<into>”

For this reason the beasts of the waste land with the wolves will make their holes there and the ostriches will be living in it: never again will men be living there, it will be unpeopled from generation to generation.

לָכֵ֗ן (לָ) la. “<to>”לָנֶ֔צַח (לָ) la. “to”

Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Babylon.

לַמִּלְחָמָ֔ה (לַ) la. “for <the>”

See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against the resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make them go in flight from her; and I will put over her the man of my selection: for who is like me? and who will put forward his ca

לְפָנָֽי׃ (לְ) le. “<to>”

So give ear to the decision of the Lord which he has made against Babylon, and to his purposes designed against the land of the Chaldaeans; Truly, they will be pulled away by the smallest of the flock; truly, he will make waste their fields with them.

לָכֵ֞ן (לָ) la. “<to>”

And I will send men to Babylon to make her clean and get her land cleared: for in the day of trouble they will put up their tents against her on every side.

לְבָבֶ֤ל׀ (לְ) le. “to”

Go in flight out of Babylon, so that every man may keep his life; do not be cut off in her evil-doing: for it is the time of the Lord's punishment; he will give her her reward.

לַֽיהוָ֔ה (לַֽ) la. “for”לָֽהּ׃ (לָֽ) La “to <the>”

Sudden is the downfall of Babylon and her destruction: make cries of grief for her; take sweet oil for her pain, if it is possible for her to be made well.

לְמַכְאוֹבָ֔הּ (לְ) le. “for”

We would have made Babylon well, but she is not made well: give her up, and let us go everyone to his country: for her punishment is stretching up to heaven, and lifted up even to the skies.

לְאַרְצ֑וֹ (לְ) le. “to”

Make bright the arrows; take up the body-covers: the Lord has been moving the spirit of the king of the Medes; because his design against Babylon is its destruction: for it is the punishment from the Lord, the payment for his Temple.

לְהַשְׁחִיתָ֑הּ (לְ) le. “[is] to”

At the sound of his voice there is a massing of the waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain and sends out the wind from his store-houses.

לְק֨וֹל (לְ) le. “to”לַמָּטָר֙ (לַ) la. “for the”

You are my fighting axe and my instrument of war: with you the nations will be broken; with you kingdoms will be broken;

לִ֔י (לִ֔) L “of”

And I will give to Babylon, and to all the people of Chaldaea, their reward for all the evil they have done in Zion before your eyes, says the Lord.

לְבָבֶ֜ל (לְ) le. “to”וּלְכֹ֣ל׀ (לְ) le. “to”לְעֵֽינֵיכֶ֑ם (לְ) le. “to”

See, I am against you, says the Lord, O mountain of destruction, causing the destruction of all the earth: and my hand will be stretched out on you, rolling you down from the rocks, and making you a burned mountain.

לְהַ֥ר (לְ) le. “into”

And they will not take from you a stone for the angle of a wall or the base of a building; but you will be a waste place for ever, says the Lord.

לְפִנָּ֔ה (לְ) le. “for”לְמֽוֹסָד֑וֹת (לְ) le. “for”

And the land is shaking and in pain: for the purposes of the Lord are fixed, to make the land of Babylon an unpeopled waste.

לָשׂ֞וּם (לָ) la. “to”לְשַׁמָּ֖ה (לְ) le. “into”

Babylon's men of war have kept back from the fight, waiting in their strong places; their strength has given way, they have become like women: her houses have been put on fire, her locks are broken.

לְהִלָּחֵ֗ם (לְ) le. “to”לְנָשִׁ֑ים (לְ) le. “<into>”

One man, running, will give word to another, and one who goes with news will be handing it on to another, to give word to the king of Babylon that his town has been taken from every quarter:

לִקְרַאת־ (לִ) li “to”לִקְרַ֣את (לִ) li “to”לְהַגִּיד֙ (לְ) le. “to”לְמֶ֣לֶךְ (לְ) le. “to”

For these are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a grain-floor when it is stamped down; before long, the time of her grain-cutting will come.

לָֽהּ׃ (לָֽ) La “to <the>”

For this reason the Lord has said: See, I will give support to your cause, and take payment for what you have undergone; I will make her sea dry, and her fountain without water.

לָכֵ֗ן (לָ) la. “<to>”

And Babylon will become a mass of broken walls, a hole for jackals, a cause of wonder and surprise, without a living man in it.

לְגַלִּ֧ים׀ (לְ) le. “<into>”